“I just told the players it’s the weirdest feeling I’ve ever had,” said Burkiewicz following his team’s 66-62 overtime loss to Quincy Notre Dame on the opening night of the Temple’s Tip-Off Classic Monday.

“I’ve never been so disappointed and so happy at the same time. They’re feeling it too, the exact same thing,” added Burkiewicz of his players. “There were smiles with instant frowns. It’s just mixed emotions right now.”

After taking an 11-0 punch to start the game, Annawan pushed the defending Class 3A state champions and their 53-game winning streak to the brink.

With the game tied 56-all and the Bravettes with possession after a missed free throw by QND’s Kristen Gengenbacher, Annawan all-stater Celina VanHyfte was fouled with three seconds left on the clock on an entry pass to post. VanHyfte’s front end of the one-and-bonus rattled around and fell out, sending the game to overtime.

QND scored three quick buckets in the first minute of overtime, and never surrendered the lead.

Annawan weathered QND’s torrid 11-0 run to start the game, and rallied to take the lead 15-14 on a 3-pointer by Megan Foes.

Foes had 11 points in the opening quarter as the Bravettes trailed 21-19 after eight minutes. QND put together another run — 13-3 to start the second quarter — and led by as many 15 points in the second frame before consecutive hoops from Morgan VanHyfte pulled the Bravettes within 41-30 at the break.

The tempo changed in the second half as QND went scoreless for nearly five minutes in the third frame and Annawan trimmed the deficit to 45-41.

Annawan took the lead, 56-55, with 45 seconds left in regulation as a driving Morgan VanHyfte dished the ball to her sister Celina VanHyfte for the go-ahead hoop.

QND’s Mary Beth Hugenberg hit one of two free throws with 26 seconds to play to tie the game at 56-all.

Celina VanHyfte finished with 20 points, with 17 coming in the second after being plagued by foul trouble in the first half. Cierra Davis added 16 for the Bravettes and Foes finished with 11.